Omodakaya

The Kabuki Encyclopedia's entry on the Ichikawa house (Danshirō–Ennosuke line) says it became well known from Ichikawa Danshirō II, a pupil of Danjūrō IX active in the Meiji and Taishō eras. His son Ennosuke II (later En'ō I) brought ballet technique into dance and staged new works; Ennosuke III (later En'ō II), grandson of Ennosuke II, brought a new wind into kabuki with Super Kabuki, the Encyclopedia records.

The house art is the Omodaka Jisshu: dances created or newly staged by Ichikawa En'ō I, established by Ennosuke III in 1975 to mark the thirteenth anniversary of his death, according to the Kabuki Play Guide, which also notes a separate En'ō Jisshu. A collection of one generation's dance creations, it differs in nature from the aragoto set of the Kabuki Jūhachiban. The crest is yae-omodaka.

According to the Kabuki Actor Directory, Ichikawa Ennosuke IV and Ichikawa Chūsha IX took their names at the Shinbashi Enbujō in June–July 2012, and Ichikawa Danko V made his stage debut in the same production. The official site of the Chūsha and Danko society records that Chūsha's father and Danko's grandfather was Ichikawa En'ō II.

The origin of the house name Omodakaya, and the full lists and history of the En'ō Jisshu and the 'Forty-eight Selections of Ennosuke III', are left unstated here until primary sources confirm them.